How the TradeAlmanac journal is built
beginner
Automated material · TradeAlmanac editorial deskPrepared by a language model from our stored data and checked by an editor.
The journal is not a blog beside the product but a layer over the same data the product displays.
The numbers do not go stale
There are no hand-typed market figures in the text of an article. Where a value is needed there is a directive, and the value is substituted every time the page is served.
The reason is simple: "this company's multiple is currently such-and-such", written into the text, becomes a lie within a quarter that nobody notices — it looks like a fact rather than a stale cache.
An editorial linter enforces this: material containing a market figure in prose is not published.
Sections and courses
A section is a thematic showcase. A course is a set of materials in a considered order, from simple to complex.
The link to the product
Every article carries links to instruments, metrics or product sections. From an article you can go to the data, and from an instrument card to the materials explaining its metrics.
Material with nowhere to go from it does not get published — that is also a linter rule.
What next
The easiest starting points are the order of operations for a beginner or the glossary.
Prepared by a language model from our stored data and checked by an editor.
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